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| Mailing Lists for Penobscot County, Maine |
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About Penobscot County MEGenWeb ProjectThis county is available for adoption. If you would like to learn more about becoming a County Coordinator and a part of The MEGenWeb Project, or if you have any other questions relating to this county, please contact the State Coordinator, Tina Vickery Penobscot County was formed April 1, 1816 from the northern part of Hancock County (included present day Waldo County). Maine became a state on March 15, 1820. The new county was bounded on the north by the international boundary of British Claim. The Penobscot River is Maine's longest river and the life of Penobscot County. Boats traveled up the Penobscot bay into the interior of Maine. Henry David Thoreau was one of the first writers to describe life on the Penobscot in his book "The Maine Woods". His descriptive accounts of 1846, 1853, and 1857 provides insight to the geography and the settlers of this area. Settlers used the river as a highway and loggers floated logs down river with logmarks for identification. Family names were associated with a logmark. The county seat is Bangor. |
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About the MEGenWeb ProjectIn June 1996, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion, it was decided to create this page for all states, establishing the USGenWeb Project. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for a state page. If you would like to contribute your data or create a county page within a given state, please contact the person responsible for maintaining that state's page. If you would like to volunteer in any way to help with this site contact the State Coordinator Tina S. Vickery |
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About the USGenWeb ProjectIn the spring of 1996, a group of genealogists with mutual interests in Kentucky genealogy got together and discussed ways and means of using the internet for comprehensive geenalogical resources. This resulted in a project to build web sites for every county in Kentucky. This idea quickly spread to other states and by the end of the summer of 1996, the USGenWeb Project was born.
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